It was the headline which flew ’round the world: Harvard prof seeks mom for cloned Neanderthal. An irresistible story, perhaps, but the Harvard prof, George Church, has repudiated it, blaming the media buzz on poor translation skills.
What’s the truth?…
cloning
Remember the slogan “ethics is playing catch-up with science”? It was one of the trusty clichés of science journalists in the heated debates five or six years ago over embryo research, “therapeutic cloning” and embryonic stem cells.
From a layman’s…
